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Mini Bunny Cakes

My heart was set on baking carrot cake until I stumbled upon this dessert on Pinterest. It was so much fun to make and absolutely love the Spring colors!!

I was able to make four (4) mini cakes — purchased small boxes from Michael’s and shared these adorable cakes with a couple of my friends kids. Of course, I kept a mini for myself. It was moist & sweet! Hope you all enjoyed your holiday weekend : )

Ingredients:

2 boxes white cake mix

buttercream frosting

Wilton food coloring

Jumbo marshmallows

pink sparkling sugar

parchment paper

round cookie cutter

pink jelly jeans

decorating tip

decorating bag

Prepare batter from two boxes of White Cake mix and split into four equal portions

Tint each portion a different color – pink, yellow, purple and blue

Line a medium sized cookie sheet with parchment paper and pour batter onto cookie sheet. Let it settle on a flat surface for 15 minutes

Bakes the cakes according to instructions on the cake box

Let cool

Use a round cookie cutter to cut out the cake layers

Make a batch of your best buttercream frosting

Add a circle of frosting between each layer of cake

Use a Wilton 2D or tip of choice with decorating bag and pipe a full circle onto each cake (as your layer)

Make the bunny ears with marshmallows and sparkling sugar. Slice or cut two diagonal pieces of marshmallow. Lay the sticky part of marshmallow into the pink sugar.

Stick the pink marshmallows into ear position and use a jellybean to make your nose.

Note: I swirled one circle along the edge of each layer and one small dollop in the middle. Decorate top layer.